HGL
constant-blue
heroic won't launch on steam deck
I turned on cloud saves and updated it and now it just wont open at all.
32 Replies
apparent-cyan•2y ago
Try starting it from the command line?
To do that, search for "Konsole" in the start menu, open it, and run
flatpak run com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl
Once Heroic is closed again (you'll be able to tell by (deck@steamdeck ~)$ appearing on the Konsole again), copy the text output (or just take a screenshot) and send it into here.
Alternatively you could run
flatpak run com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl >> ~/output.log
and upload the log file that it generates.constant-blueOP•2y ago
sorry for the wait. this is what shows up after both commands, its probably because i moved my flatpak folder to my sd card and symlinked it.
bwrap: Can't make symlink at /home/deck/.local/share/flatpak: File exists
xenial-black•2y ago
don't think flatpak works that way
constant-blueOP•2y ago
it seems to work with them all
xenial-black•2y ago
well it's not a heroic bug that's for sure lol
constant-blueOP•2y ago
but heroic was working after i did this?
xenial-black•2y ago
did you have it running before you did this
was it already running
when you ran the command
constant-blueOP•2y ago
at
sry
at first yes but i re did it with it closed
xenial-black•2y ago
yeah so it was already running, program is loaded into the memory so it would continue working
but doesn't meant it won't break after you relaunch
constant-blueOP•2y ago
Okay, and what's the fix?
xenial-black•2y ago
unsymlink it?
why would you symlink it in the first place
constant-blueOP•2y ago
I have a 64gb model and it fills up on space quick
Was hoping I could get away with it
Right I'll try unlinking it and see
xenial-black•2y ago
yeah you install the games on the micro sd lmao
and install heroic on internal storage
constant-blueOP•2y ago
Ik but I moved all my apps there to try save space
I'll try keeping just heroic on internal
xenial-black•2y ago
ok so I discovered something
https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/tips-and-tricks.html#adding-a-custom-installation
constant-blueOP•2y ago
What?
xenial-black•2y ago
you can do what you want, it's just you are doing it wrong 🙂
though the wrong way might be the only way due to the read only file system on steam deck
constant-blueOP•2y ago
Ah.
Icy
xenial-black•2y ago
but who cares just disable the read only FS
I doubt it's going to delete a brand new directory
constant-blueOP•2y ago
Alright, I'll go do that then, thank you very much!
apparent-cyan•2y ago
i thought it re-wrote the entire file system each update? it would reset it to read-only
xenial-black•2y ago
yeah it could
but if it does just put the file back after updates
it's not too hard right?
apparent-cyan•2y ago
no, just cumbersome
xenial-black•2y ago
you could probably do it on login too
it's not a hard thing to do
constant-blueOP•2y ago
It's late rn but I'll do it tomorrow and get back to you, thanks again for the help
optimistic-gold•2y ago
Might be related to this issue I submitted https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/2944
GitHub
Flatpak Heroic does not launch with a symlinked ~/.steam folder · I...
Describe the bug I am running Flatpak Steam and Flatpak Heroic on Fedora Kinoite. I attempted to symlink ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam as ~/.steam to make it easier to access ~/.steam/s...
optimistic-gold•2y ago
I’d classify this under you can’t symlink everything to the SD card. There were at least 15 people who had the clever idea of symlinking their
~/.local folder to the SD card only to semi-brick their Deck until they fixed that folderconstant-blueOP•2y ago
Oh shoot I completely forgot about this I am so sorry
Well before going and trying all of the symlink stuff above I tried completely wiping heroic from my steam deck (deleting app settings Aswell) and when I reinstalled it it worked!... until I closed it at which point it goes back to not opening
Is this any more fixable or should I just buckle down and do this
optimistic-gold•2y ago
I have no idea, but if you’re symlinking anything within
~/.local/share, you may want to reconsider itconstant-blueOP•2y ago
Darn and it was working so well till now. alright I'll fix it all up thanks for the help once again
national-gold•2y ago
this is issue on flatpak side, we added more sandboxing to prevent users from loosing their saves if they have wine prefix configured in inacessible places, or linux native game doesn't follow XDG standard
constant-blueOP•2y ago
Ahhh icy thank you for the information